Packaging-machine.



F. W. LEV.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED rmms, 1909. RENEWED OUT. 27, 1911.

1 03 5 1 n Patented June 25, 1912.

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M ATTORNEY F. W. LEV.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.-16, 190a. RENEWED 001'. 27, 1911.

1,030,517., Patented June 25, 1912.

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% ATTORNEY P. W. LEV.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED 1213.15, 1909. RENEWED 001'. 27, 1911.

1,930,511, Patented June 25,1912.

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F. W. LEV.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED rm. 15, 1909. RENEWED 0013.27, 1911.

1,030,517, Patented June 25,1912.

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PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1909. RENEWED OUT. 27, 1911. 1,030,517., Patented June 25,1912.

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PACKAGING MACHINE.

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PACKAGING MACHINE. APPLIQATION FILED runs, 1909. nmvnwnn 001'. 27. 1011.

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FRANK W. LEV, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL PACKING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PACKAGING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed February 15, 1908, Serial No. 477,950.- RenewedyOctober 27, 1911. Serial No. 657,046.

articles, cigarettes for example, assembling and compacting the same, and thereafter providing such articles with a wrapper the flaps of which are preferably pasted and folded to the body thereof.

My improved machine embodies numerous novel principles of operation and structural features and combinations to which a brief reference will be made here, and which will be more fully explained and described in the following specification and illustrated in the appended drawings which show one embodiment of the invention. As such machines are not constructed, it is generally necessary to make substantial changesin quite a number of the machine parts if it is desired to vary the number-of articles to be comprised in a package. By my invention I provide a most simple and efficient device to accomplish this purpose without changing any of the mechanism, and I can, with very little loss of time and with but slight labor, adapt the machine to package practically any number of articles, within a given maximum and minimum, and one object of the invention is to provide means whereby this purpose is attained.

As far as I am familiar with the present state of the art it is the general practice to perform the several operations of folding and pasting the package in its passage along the machine bed or table, the package being advanced step by step and being sub-,

jected to the friction arising from its contact with, and advance along, the machine bed or table. This'feature is a prolific cause ackage inasmuch as the package material 1s usually very frail and this pushing along the table results inconsiderable waste of material, time and labor.

A further object of my invention is the provision of mechanism whereby the package will be subjected to no more friction than is absolutely necessary, the package itself being bodily conveyed in contradistinction to being pushed or advanced, from one operating point to another and in its passage betweenthe points being partly folded and pasted.

.Owing to the general arrangement of parts in existing machines it is the usual rule to have at least two operatives to tend each machine, one operative to feed the articles, and another to stand at the discharge end of the machine to direct the discharge of packages and generally supervise the action of the machine and correct any irregularities or defects.

A further object of my invention is to so construct a machine of this character that the arrangement of parts is simple and compact and the entire action automatic, whereby one operative can feed and tend a machine with ease, thus efl'ectinga saving in time, labor and expense.

Other objects and advantages of the invention and the several novel structural features and combinations will be made clear in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1, is a top plan view of a machine embodyin the invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevationa view thereof, looking in the dihereinafter described; Fig; 9 is a top plan,

view "of the assembling o'r compacting chamber; Fig. 10 a longitudinal sectional View taken on the line 10'-.10 of Fig. 9; Fig. 11 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 1l 11 of Fig. '9; Fig. 12 is a top plan view of thehopper for feeding the articles to be incased. Fig. 13 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 1313 of Fig. 12; Fig. 14 is a cross sectional view on the line 14-14 of Fig. 13; Fig; 15is' a front elevational View of. the'wrappeii blank supporting and feeding mechanism; Fig.

lb 1s a longitudinal sectional view through the line 1616 of Fig. 15, a stack of blanks being shown, the lowermostthereof being in position to be fed to the feeding rollers; Fig. 17 is a top plan view of the wrapper blank holder shown in Fig. 15; Fig. 18 is an inverted plan view of a stationary side flap folding device; Fig. 19 is a cross sectional view on the line 1919 of Fig. 18; Fig. 20 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 202O of Fig. 18; Fig. 21 is a top plan view of a movable folding and conveying mechanism or sliding carriage moved into alinement with the side flap folding device and the drying and'ejecting mechanism; and Figs. and23 are top plan and vertical sectional views, respectiveley, of certain parts of the conveying mechanism.

Before proceeding to a detailed descrip tion of the embodiment of the invention illustrated, it is to be understood that the machine forming the object of the invention is capable of use in connection with a great variety of articles, but that for facility of description it is assumed that cigarettes are the articles employed.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings 1 designates the machine frame and 2 the bed thereof. The frame carries the main power shaft 3 upon which is mounted the driving pulley 4e and which also carries loosely the idler pulley 5 to which the driving belt (not shown) may be shifted when it is desired to stop the operation of the machine without stopping the belt.

Regarding the left hand side of Fig. 1, to be the front end of the machine, itwill be noted that there is arranged over the bed 2 a hopper 6 having converging perforated lateral walls 7 joined to or formed integrally with a base plate 8 and supported by uprights or standards 9. The side walls 7, base plate 8, and uprights 9 form practically a unitary structure movable relatively to the hopper 6 and to a depending casing 10 provided with preferably equidistantly arranged partitions 11 forming a plurality of receiving chambers 12 in the casing 10.

The floor of the latter is divided into two parts or sections lying in different horizontal planes, the purpose of which construction is to arrange the lowermost layers of cigarettes in the two sides of the casing in different horizontal planes, the object of this arrangement being explained presently. The base plate 8 is centrally recessed to permit cigarettes to pass into the receiving chambers 12 and one of the side walls is connected to links 13 and '14 the latter carrying a" roller 15 (Fig. 4) working in a groove 16 in a cam 17 (Fig. 6) which is keyed on a counter shaft 18 revolved from the shaft 3 through the medium of intermeshing gear 19 and 20. .As the shaft 18 revolves the links 13' and 14 are caused to agitate the walls 7 forcing the cigarettes to descend into the chambers 12 and there arrange themselves in parallel vertical rows the lowermost layer in the two sides of the casing lying in dilferent horizontal planes.

As illustrated in Fig. 13 the casing 10 is provided with twenty chambers 12. A machine having this number of chambers would provide 20 cigarettes to a package as the maximum, the greatest number which is generally required. If desired,of course,

,the width of the casing and the number of chambers 12 may be increased to suit the requirements of any given case. But assuming the machine to be constructed as illustrated, if it is desired to decrease the number of cigarettes to each ackage, 1 secure as by screws 21* to each side of the base 8 a plate 21 of such width that the' two plates. one at each side, will cover up the desired number of compartments 12 and thus decrease the number of rows of cigarettes which descend into casin 1t).v If packages of ten cigarettes are desired, each plate 21 would be suficiently wide to cover five compartments, thus limiting the number of compartments open to the reception of cigarettes to ten.

Arranged adjacent to the hopper and in line with the lower portions of the receiving chambers 12 is thea'ssembling and compacting chamber (Fig. 5 and Figs. 9 to 11). This chamber is formed with an upper conipartment 22 and a lower compartment 23 toboth being recessed at 26 and 27, respectively, to permit a bracket 28 to reciprocate relatively thereto. Secured to the bracket 28, as by screws 29 or in any other suitable manner 1s an upper wall 30, a lower wall 31 and an intermediate wall 33. A wall 32 is also provided upon which the upper row of cigarettes rests, this wall 32 being secured to a portion of the stationary frame 24:, and extending parallel to the other walls. lhese walls are so constructed that where they overlap each other they present no projecting surfaces to damage the'cigarettes. To the bracket 28 is secured by a set screw 3% a link 35 (connected with lever 107) coacting with a cam 36 on the counter shaft. 18 (Fig. 4) to move the series of walls 30 31, and 33 back and forth in the compacting chamber, these walls .moving as a unitary structure in unison and their movement being limited by the length of the apertures in the upper and lower stationary walls 24 and 25.

The means for moving the ci arettes out of the receiving chambers and 1nto the as sembling chamber consists preferably of 3 edge of the slot. These graduations whichv inseam twin plungers 37, 38, each provided with a series of fingers 39, 40, adapted to enter the receiving chambers 12 and force the cigarettes out therefrom, end on, and into'the compacting chamber compartments 22 and 23, where they lie transversely of the latter. The fingers 39, 40 are not in the same horizontal plane but one series is-higher than the other and each is in line with one of the lowermost rows of cigarettes in the receiving chambers. Each plunger 37, 38 is formed with a sleeve 41 each slidable upon a separate rod 42 secured to the machine frame. Connected to the lower face of the sleeves 41 is a link 43 (Figs. 2 and 4) pivoted to a lever 44 (Fig. 5) which carries a roller 45 working in a suitably formed cam groove in the cam 46 keyed on a horizontal counter shaft 47 driven from and at right angles to the shaft 18 through the.

wrapper blank holder 51' in which the blanks 52 are stacked'or piled. The base of the holder 51 is longitudinally slotted at 53, graduations 54 being provided at one are of like value with the varying number of ci arettes to difier'ent sized packages, are provlded to determine. the size of wrapper to be employed for a given sized package; Adapted to slide on the base of the holder 51 is an abutment 55 having a tail piece 56 which carries a set screw 57 extending through the slot 53. By moving this abutment along the holder to the number correspondin tothe number of cigarettes to a package, 516 inside dimension of the holder will be adjusted to snugly contain the right sized wrappers. 'Assuming for example, that a package is to contain twelve cigarettes the abutment is moved to mark 12 and the inside of the holder 51 will-be of a size to contain wrappers for incasi ng cigarettes in acka es of 12.

l xten ing up through the bed" of the machine is a vertical shaft 58 held in a'sleeve 59 secured at the end of a bracket 60 bolted to the machine frame. This shaft carries at its lower end a bevel gear wheel 61 meshing with a like gear wheel 62 keyed on the shaft 47, the construction being such that the shaft 58 is driven from the shaft 47- (Fig. 5). At its upper end the shaft 58 is provided with a bevel gear wheel 63 in mesh with a second bevel gear Wheel 64 secured to a shaft 65 revoluble in bearings 66 depending from the blank holder 51. On a sleeve 67 formed integral with the bevel gear wheel 64 is a spur wheel 68 in mesh with a similar spur wheel 69 carried on the end of a shaft 70 upon which the larger of two wrapper blank feeding rollers 71 and 72 is mounted, the roller 71 being driven through the gear train just described, and the roller 72 revolving loosely on its shaft 73. Near the end opposite to that on which the bevel gear wheel 64 is held the shaft- 65 carries a-spur wheel 74 (toothed on a portion only of its periphery) in mesh with a spur wheel .75 secured on the end of shaft 76 which carries a roller 77 the function of which is to slightly raise the pile of wrapper blanks, disengage the lowermost thereof and direct it through slot 78 in the blank holder between the pair of feed rollers 70 and 72.

Fixed on the shaft 65 adjacent the gear -74, s

is a disk 79 from which projects eccent'rically a pin 80 forming a pivot for one end of a link 81 the other end of the link being pivoted to a pin 82 projecting from the face of the gear wheel 75. Formed upon the inner face of th spur wheel 68 is a cam 83 which is adapte to act against a pin 84 projecting from a bracket 85 pivoted at 86 in which bracket one end of the shaft 76 is journaled. As the cam 83 revolves the pin 84 rides up the cam nose and the roller 7 77 is pushed up against the pile of wrapper blanks, and as the roller- 77 revolves it pushes out the lowermost blank, curving it as seen in dot-ted lines in Fig. 16 and directing it between the feed rollers 70 and 72. When the pin 84 quits the cam 83 the releasing engagement with the teeth of spur wheel 74 and as a consequence the roller 77.

drops downwardly and away from the wrapper pile, the link 81 acting fasa hanger for roller 77. l

The shaft of roller 72 is carried by arms 87 (one of which is shown in Fig. 16) which.

91 force the arms 87 toward the roller 70. causing the rollers 70 and 72- to revolve against each other with the wrapper blank between them.

Depending from the blank holder 51 are vertical blank guides 92 in the front pair of which slides 93 carrying the blank supports or stops 94 are slidable. The blank uides 92 are aduated to indicate numbers correspon ing to the number of cigatoothed portion of spur wheel 74- is just rettes to a package and the slides 93 are held compacting chamber carrying a vertical spring guide 97 between which and the front guides the blanks are held while cigarettes are fed against the same.

The mechanism for forcing the charge of cigarettes out of the compacting chamber and against the wrapper blank comprises a pair of preferably blunt plunger-s 98, 99, held by a plunger rod 100 secured to a sleeve 101, slidably mounted upon a pair of rods 102, arranged at right angles to the finger plungers 39, 40. Through a link connection 103, 101, a roller (not shown) on the link 101 works in a cam groove 105 formed in the cam 106, whereby the plungers 98, 99 are moved into and out of the assembling chambers 22, 23, the cam 106 being mounted to revolve on the shaft 18. lVhen the plungers 98, 99 start their in stroke (the right hand side of Fig. 10), then the link 35 which is connected to a lever 10? having a roller working in a groove in the cam 36 mounted on the shaft 18 operates to move forward the structure comof movement of the wall structure is less.

than the stroke of the plungers 98 and 99. Thus the wall structure which carries the layers of cigarettes, moves closely against the wrapper blank arranged transversely in its path, and the plungers 98 and 99 moving forwardly between the walls contact with the cigarettes and advance the latter in a compacted body against the wrapper blank into the combined conveyer and-folder or sliding carriage about to be described. Y

Prior to the time that the plungers 98, 99, are moved inwardly within the assembling chambers 22, 23, the sliding carriage designated generally as 109, has by suitable mechanism been.shiftedlintdexact alinement with the compacting chambers 22, 23. This sliding carriage consists of afioor 110 and an upper wall 111 provided with a longitudinal slot 112. Adapted to reciprocate in the space between the upper wall 111 and the floor 110 is a preferably flat face plunger 113 having a plunger rod 114 guided within an annular guide 115, the plunger rod being encircled by a spring 116, one end of which bears against the rearwall of the sliding carriage, and the other end of which bears against a collar 1117 fixed on the plunger rod, the tendency of the spring being normally to push the plunger rod 114 outwardly and thus draw the plunger rearwardly in the direction of the guide piece 115. Extending transversely across the sliding carriage is a guide bar 119 through which the threaded rods 118 pass. These rods extend into engagement with the rear face of the plunger 113 and by suitably turning the rods the plunger is moved farther from or closer to the guide bar 119 thereby decreasing or increasing the capacity of the sliding carriage. By this adjusting arrangement the stroke of the plungers 98 and 99 need not be varied with different sized packages, it being only necessary to move the plungers 113, as described to accommodate the size of the interior of the sliding carriage to the size of the package desired at any time, dependent upon the number of cigarettes employed for such package.

The mechanism just described is secured to a pair of sleeves 120 designed to slide on a pair of guides or rods 121 secured in brackets 122 projecting outwardly from the machine on the side opposite to that carrying the plunger fingers 98, 99. Suitably secured to the sleeves 120 is a link 108 fulcrumed at 1'23 and having a roller 124 working in the groove 125 of a cam 1'26 mounted upon the shaft +17, and as the shaft- 17 revolves, the link 108 is caused to reciprocate the sliding carriage 109 back and forth transversely of the machine. The lateral walls 127 of the sliding carriage are-beveled as shown in Fig. 22 in order to turn in or fold the side flaps of the wrapper blank as the latter is advanced in the sliding carriage by means of the plungers 98 and 99, and the structure composed of the walls 30 to 33. After the partially completed package has been moved into the sliding carriage, the latter is moved toward the rear end'of the machine in a direction away from the fin er plunger 39, d0, the upper and lower end aps (those on the shorter side) projecting slightly beyond the carriage 109. The latter in its travel backward passes opposite a stationary folding block 128 formed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, this block being preferably a little above the machine bed leaving space between the latter and the lower end of the block. Extending into this space is the lower one of a pair of pasting rollers 129, the upper one reaching into a paste container 130 containing a suitable adhesive, the latter being a it-ated through the medium of a short burre shaft 131 driven through a bevel gear wheel 132 in mesh with a similar bevel gear-wheel 145 carried by the vertical shaft 58, said bevel gearing driving spur gears 133*. When the pa r tially completed package reaches the folder 128,the upper flap will first come into contact with the beveled portion 133 of the folder pressing this upper flap against the body of the package. Then the lower fiap will receive paste from the lower paste wheel 129, and when this lower flap reaches the opposite end 134 of the folder 128, it will be gradually curved upwardly by the aid of the curved block 135 and will be folded and pasted against the body of the package.

' The package is in the condition where both the shorter ends thereof are closed, the one shorter end being pasted and the othersimply presenting the uninterrupted paper web, and the two side flaps still require to be folded and pasted against the body of the package. These latter operations are performed in a stationary folding box which is exactly in line with the sliding carriage when the latter has reached the end of its backward travel, and the detail structure of saidstationary folding box and its auxiliary parts will now be described.

The folding box structure is best shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 18 to 21, bot-h inclusive, and it comprises a bottom member 136 hav- "ing beveled folding projections 137 which serve to fold the upper of the two longitudinal flaps against the body of the package. Slightly forward of the members 137 are longitudinal slots 138 wherein paste wheels 139 revolve, these paste wheels being supplied with adhesive from a paste container 140 containing adhesive which is agitated by a burred shaft 141 driven from spur gears 142, 143 through a bevel gear 144 meshing with the bevel gear 145. As the lower flaps pass the apertures 138, the paste wheels 139 apply adhesive thereto, and as the package is advanced, these lower longitudinal flaps come into contact with the folders 146, which latter gradually turn the flaps upwardly and fold and pastethem against the body of the package.

147 designates the top cover for the stationary folding box 146, the general outline thereof being shown in Figs. 1 and 18.

The means for forcing the partially completed package from the sliding carriage through the stationary folding box just described, comprises a finger 148 in contact with a pin or screw 149, projecting upwardly from the plunger rod 114. The finger 148 is secured to a link 150 which in turn is pivoted to a lever 151 (Figs. 4 and 5) fulc-rumed at 152 and having a roller (not shown) working in a groove 145 in a cam 153 (Fig. 8) mounted on the shaft 18, and as the latter revolves the finger 148 is pushed back and forth'and when it cont-acts with the pin 149, the plunger 113 is pushed inwardly to force the package into the stationary folding box 136.

Each package is advanced by the next succeeding package from the stationary folding box into the dryin and ejecting mechanism which consists o a pair of belts 154 running on idler pulleys 155 and from here the completed packages are passed into any desired receptacle.

The following is the sequence of steps which constitute one complete cycle of the suming further that power is turned on,

the side walls of the hopper will be agitated causing the cigarettes to descend into the chambers 12, the plunger fingers 39, '40 are then moved against the lowermost rows of cigarettes in the chambers 12, conveying the cigarettes intothe assembling and compacting chamber. The paper feeding device then comes into operation feeding a wrapper blank so that it stands vertically in relation to the machine between the guides 92, and 97 and directly in the path of the charge of cigarettes. The compacting plungers 98, 99, are then moved into the compacting chamber, superposing the two rows of cigarettes lying therein in two alined rows, and when the plungers 98, 99, start their instroke, the bracket 28 is moved into the direction of the wrapper blank, advancing the entire cigarette carrying mechanism against the wrapper blank and the plungers 98 and 99 then forcing the superposed rows of cigarettes into the sliding carriage which has theretofore been moved into a-linement with the assembling chamber, by forcing the cigarette charge into the sliding carriage, the wrapper is folded about the cigarette into two parallel longitudinal layers, and as the charge moves into the sliding carriage, the folding devices carried by the latter fold the longitudinal flaps of the Wrapper. As the sliding carriage is started in its travel toward the rear end of the machine, the plungers 39, 40, 98, 99, are moved back to their starting position and the paper feeding mechanism feeds another wrapper blank transversely of the compacting chamber. In its travel toward the rear end of the machine, the sliding carriage passes the folder 128 and the paster 130, whereby the projecting end flap (the shorter flap) is pasted and folded against the body of the package. When the sliding carriage has reached the end of its rearward travel, the finger 148 is caused to engage the pin 149, moving the lunger 113 inwardly and forcing the partially completed package into the stationary foldmg box 136, where the folding members fold the upper flaps against the body of the package and the paste wheels 139 apply paste to the lower flaps, which lower flaps are then folded and pressed against the body of the package by the folding members 146. The package is then by the next following package forced into the drying and ejecting mechanism composed of the belts 154 running on the idlers 155.

Having thus descrlbed my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a hopper provided with depending chambers to receive articles in rows, and with lateral Walls adapted to be agitated to cause the articles to descend into the chambers, of means attachable to'said lateral walls for varying the number of articles to a package, an assembling chamber adjacent said hopper, means for advancing the lowermost row of articles from the hopper into the assembling chamber, feeding mechanism for feeding a wrapper blank into the path of the grticles in the assembling chamber, a folder reciprocable at one side of the machine into and out of the path of the assembling chamber, means whereby the capacity of said folder may be varied to accommodate difierent sized articles or a varying number of articles and means for assembling and compacting the articles and forcing them against the wrapper blank and into the movable folding mechanism. 4

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a hopper having depending chambers, the floor of the hopper being arranged in diiferent horizontal planes, means for causing articles to pass into said chambers, means for varying the number of articles passing into the group of chambers, an assembling chamber arranged to correspond to the planes of the lowermost .rows of articles in the hopper-chambers, means for forcing articles from the hopper chambers into the assembling chamber, means for feeding a wrapper blank into the path of the articles lying in the assembling chamber, folding mechanism reciprocable at one side of the machine, means whereby the capacity of said folding mechanism may be varied to accommodate differentsized articles or a varying number of articles, means for assembling and compacting the articles in the assembling chamber, and means for advancing compacted articles against the wrapper and into the movable folding mechanism.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination with article feeding mechanism, of means for feeding a wrapper blank into the path of the articles,

side flap folding means reciprocable at one side of the machine and movable into and out of line with the wrapper blank feeding mechanism, means for advancing the articles against the wrapper blank into --the side flap folding means and combined end flap folding and pasting means arranged to .opcrate upon a package in transit in the movable side flap folding means.

.4. In a device of the character described, the combination with article feeding means,

of Wrapper blank feeding mechanism, a movable side flap folder reciprocable at one side of the machine, means for. advancing the articles against the wrapper blank and into the folder, leaving the end flap projectingfand a stationary end flap folder spaced from the machine bed and arranged adjacent the line of travel of the side flap folder. 1 j

5. In a machine of the character described, the combination with article assembling mechanism, of wrapper blank feeding mechanism, a sliding carriage adapted to receive articles from the assembling mechanism,'a plunger arranged transversely within said sliding carriage, a pair of threaded rods adapted to adjustably fix the position of said plunger in the sliding carriage to there by determine the capacity of the latter, means for advancing articles against awrapper blank into the sliding carriage and means for operating said plunger to eject articles from-the sliding carriage. V

6. In a machine of the ch aracter described, the combination with article assembling mechanism, of wrapper blank feeding mechanism, conveying mechanism reciprocable at one side of the machine and comprising a sliding carriage having a plunger normally stationary at one end therein, means whereby the capacity ofsaid sliding carriage may be varied to accommodate different sized articles or a varying number of articles, means for advancing articles against the wrapper blank and into the sliding carriage, a stationary pasting mechanism, means for moving the sliding carriage into line with the stationary pasting mechanism, means for operating the plunger to eject the articles from the sliding carriage and move them into the stationary pasting mechanism, an means to return the plunger to normal p0 sition.

7, In a machine of the character described, the combination with article feeding means, of an adjacent assembling chamber provided with upper, lower, and intermediate walls, means for advancing the articles into the assembling chamber, means for advancing the articles out of the assembling chamber, and means for moving the said walls as a unitary structure.

8. In a machine of the character described, the combination with article feeding mechanism having a floor arranged in different horizontal planes, of an adjacent assembling chamber divided into distinct compartments means for advancing articles into the assembling chamber, means for feeding a wrapper blank transversely of the articles, means for moving the walls of theassembling chamber as a unitary structure against the wrapper blank, and means operating within the assembling chamber to superpose the articles assembling 1 in layers and force the articles out of the assembling chamber and against the wrapper blank.

9. In a machine of the character described, the combination with article feeding mechanism having a floor arranged in different horizontal planes, of an adjacent assembling chamber having compartments arranged to correspond with the floor of the article feeding mechanism, means for advancing the articles from the feeding mechanism into the assembling chamber, means for feeding a wrapper blank transversely of the articles in the assembling chamber, means for advancing the walls of the assembling chamber between Which the articles are confined against the wrapper blank, and means entering between said walls to force the articles out therefrom in compacted layers against the Wrapper blank.

10. In a machine of the character described, the combination with article feeding mechanism having a floor arranged in different horizontal planes, of an adjacently arranged movable assembling chamber divided int'cfdistinct com artments, means for feeding a wrapper blan transversely of the .assembling chamber, means for advancing the articles from the feeding mechanism into the assembling chamber, and means for forcing the articles in superposed layers out of the assembling chamber and against the scribed, the combination with article feeding mechanism, of means carried thereby for varying the number of articles to a package, an assembling chamber having movable walls, means for advancing articles from the feeding mechanism between the walls of the chamber, means for feeding a wrapper ank transversely of the assembling chamber, means for-movingthe walls of the latter against the wrapper blank, and means operating between said walls to com;

pact the articles and advance them in--compacted layers against the wrapper blank. 12.7 In a machine of the, character described, the combination with article feeding means, of an assembling chamber adjacent thereto, means for advancing the articles from the feeding means into the assembling chamber, a side flap fold ing mechanism movable relatively to the machine, means for feeding a wrapper blank transversely of the assembling chamber, means for advancing the articles against the Wrapper into the movable folder leaving the end flaps projecting, an end flap folding and pasting mechanism, means to reciprocate the movable side flap folding mechanism and thereby bring said end flap into position to be pasted and folded by the end flap pasting and folding mechanism,-side flap pasting mechanism, and means to advance the articles from the movable folding mechanism into the side flap pasting mechanism.

I 13. In a machine of ,the character described, the combination with article feeding means, of an assembling chamber adjacent thereto, means for feeding a wrapper blank transversely of the assembling chamber,

means for advancing articles from the feeding means into the assembling chamber, a movable side flap folding mechanism, means for advancing the articles against the wrapper into the movable folding mechanism leaving the end flaps projectmg, end flap folding and pasting mechanism arranged adjacent the line of travel of the movable side flap folding mechanism, means for moving the latter thereby causing the end flaps to be folded and pasted, a' stationary side \flap pasting mechanism, means f'or'moving the articles out of the movable side flap folding mechanism into the stationary side flap pasting mechanism, and a pair of belts running on idlers to eject the completed package from the machine.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two wltnesses.

I FRANKW. LEV Witnesses: f Ou'roMm'm,

v CLABISSA FRANoK. 

